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The Tall Man

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About Me

DARK CITY - YOU HAVE THE POWER :)
MORPHEUS' SPEECH TO ZION - BE ENCOURAGED!
THE PLANE SCENE
THE ONLY TRUE CURRENCY IN THIS BANKRUPT WORLD IS WHAT YOU SHARE WITH SOMEONE ELSE WHEN YOU'RE UNCOOL
STAR TREK TNG: FAMILY
"WHAT HE SAYS TO ME"
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
Those who love cannot hate.
Those who hate cannot love.
Hatred enchains the one who hates.
Love frees the one who loves.
Hatred may challenge those who love.
They may even stumble.
But hate cannot overcome love.
For those who love always return to love.
When love is real,
it lasts forever.
If it doesn't last,
it never was.
For love is eternal.
It either is or isn't.
Of Jesus while he was being crucified:
"They searched his face for anger,
for vengeance in his stare.
Instead of eyes that burned with hate
a look of love was there.
He paid for their forgiveness."
- Petra: It Is Finished
"In this world where hatred seems to grow
True love goes against the flow
And becomes so hard to show
In this world where push turns to shove
We have strength to rise above
Through the power of His love
Lord, we need to know the power of Your love"
- Petra: Love
"The Road Less Traveled" by Scott Peck (from wikipedia)
In the first section of the work Peck talks about discipline, which he considers essential for emotional, spiritual and psychological health, and which he describes as "the means of spiritual evolution". The elements of discipline that make for such health include the ability to delay gratification, accepting responsibility for oneself and one's actions, a dedication to truth and balancing.
In the second section, Peck considers the nature of love, which he considers the driving force behind spiritual growth. The section mainly attacks a number of misconceptions about love: that romantic love exists (he considers it a very destructive myth), that it is about dependency, that true love is not "falling in love". That type of love is cathexis, it is a feeling. Instead "true" love is about the extending of one's ego boundaries to include another, and about the spiritual nurturing of another, in short, love is effort.
His perspective on love is that love is not a feeling, it is an activity and an investment. He defines love as, "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." Love is primarily actions towards nurturing the spiritual growth of another. Love cannot be sustained by mutual dependence, rather, love between two parties is made stronger when they are completely independent of one another.
Scott Peck seeks to differentiate between love and cathexis. Cathexis is what explains attractions to the opposite sex, the instinct for cuddling pets and pinching babies' cheeks. However, cathexis is not love. All the same, true love cannot begin in isolation, a certain amount of cathexis is necessary to get sufficiently close to be able to truly love.
Once through the cathexis stage, the work of love begins. It is not a feeling. It consists of what you do for another person. As Peck says in "The Road Less Traveled," "Love is as love does." It is about giving the other person what they need to grow. It is about truly knowing and understanding them.
"You can have my lunch"
"You can have my lunch"
I love traveling, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures.
I believe everyone should become entrepreneurs so that people can stop "working" their lives away as indentured servants and start living!
I am neither a follower nor a leader. I simply choose my own path.

My Interests

Travel, other cultures, space exploration, the beach, warm weather, high-energy storms, the meaning of life, the nature of existence, Truth, theoretical physics, computers, neural nets, electronics, success, achievement, goals.

I'd like to meet:

People who are the same and people who are different - with other backgrounds, experiences, ways of thinking, and points of view. Oh, on here? People who are nice and friendly. Other than that I'm not picky.


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Anastacia - Burn
(Roswell)

Tears From The Moon
by Lunascape


The Secret

Here is an MP3 course by the teachers of The Secret.
(This is awesome!)


Yoda Teaches Luke How To Exit The Matrix
(from The Empire Strikes Back)

Music:

* (on the playlist that's there) *Lunascape
*Majandra
*Jewel
*C.C. Catch
*Modern Talking
*Bad Boys Blue
*Sandra
Fiona Pears
*Enya
*Boney M
*Bob Marley
Barry Manilow
*Al Stewart
*Blondie
*Aqua
*Evanescence
*Garbage
*Fleetwood Mac
*BeeGees
*Simon & Garfunkel
*Billy Joel
*Toto
*Dido
Sinead O'Connor
Dance, disco, 70's, 80's.

Fictional Singers:
*Rembrandt Brown
(aka: 'The Cryin Man')

Maria DeLuca
Vic Fontaine
Chef
*Sam Beckett

Soundtracks:
*Roswell
*Phantasm
*Quantum Leap
*Once Bitten
Night at the Roxbury
Ladyhawke

Movies:

The Meaning of Life:
American Beauty
The Shawshank Redemption
Dead Poets Society
Joe Versus The Volcano
White Squall
Meet Joe Black
City Slickers
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Karate Kid (all of them)
Good Will Hunting
Parables of the USA:
The Matrix
Dark City
Network
the Living Dead movies
Sci-Fi:
Beastmaster
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
Waxwork II: Lost In Time
The Star Wars Trilogy
Back to the Future (trilogy)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Star Trek movies
Dreamscape
Cocoon
Cocoon: The Return
Horror:
Phantasm
Phantasm 2: The Ball is Back
Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead
Phantasm 4: oblIVion
House
Stephen King's IT
The Fog (the original)
Poltergeist
Prince of Darkness
Night of the Comet
Fright Night
Comedies:
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
L.A. Story
The Princess Bride
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Fletch
Fletch Lives
Trading Places
Coming To America
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
The Waterboy
Groundhog Day
The Three Amigos
National Lampoons Vacation
Plains Trains & Automobiles
A Very Brady Sequel
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Fright Night Part 2
the Police Academy movies
Austin Powers
Top Secret!
Spies Like Us
The Burbs
Clue
Others:
Under The Tuscan Sun
There's Something About Mary
Can't Hardly Wait
Nothing To Lose
Blue Streak
Ocean's Eleven
Club Paradise
The Wedding Singer
the Indiana Jones movies
Forrest Gump
The Breakfast Club
Real Genius
Sneakers
As Good As It Gets
Haunted Honeymoon
Office Space
100 Girls
Who Am I?
Mr. Nice Guy
Rush Hour
Contact
Dogma
Volunteers
Little Monsters
The Sixth Sense
Matilda
Twister
Ladyhawke
Jaws
Gung Ho
Wall Street
Bulletproof
Wargames
The Secret of My Success
Tomb Raider
Almost Famous
Charlie's Angels
Actors:
Kevin Spacey, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Gary Cole, Tom Hanks, John Candy, Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Julia Roberts, Katy Heigl, William Sadler, Michael J. Fox, Dennis Quaid, George Wendt, Jim Carrey, Dan Aykroyd, Gene Wilder, Adam Sandler, Jackie Chan, Drew Barrymore, Michael Keaton, Scott Bakula, Helen Hunt

Television:

Roswell (simply the best show ever made!)

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Quantum Leap
Star Trek
Deep Space Nine
Voyager
Sliders
Kung Fu
Outer Limits (the new one)
Stargate SG1
Charmed
Knight Rider
The A-Team
Dr. Who
Lost In Space
The Incredible Hulk
Time Trax
Mash
Matlock
Inside The Actor's Studio

Comedies:
Red Dwarf
Cheers
Three's Company
The Cosby Show
Perfect Strangers
Family Matters
Mr. Bean
Mad About You
I Dream of Jeannie
Gilligan's Island

Cartoons:
Scooby-Doo
Looney Tunes

Books:

Authors:
Larry Crabb
Greg Baer
M. Scott Peck
Brian Tracy
Robert Kiyosaki

M. Scott Peck
"The Road Less Traveled"
(and all the sequels)
"People of the Lie"
(anything he's written)

Larry Crabb
"Connecting"
"Finding God"
"Inside Out"
"Men And Women"

Robert Kiyosaki
"Rich Dad, Poor Dad"
"Cashflow Quadrant"

(Recently Read): "Real Love: The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love & Fulfilling Relationships" by Greg Baer

(currently reading):
"He's Scared She's Scared: Understanding The Hidden Fears That Sabotage Your Relationships" by Steven Carter and Julia Sokol

"Your Sixth Sense: Unlocking the Power of Your Intuition" by Belleruth Naparstek

Heroes:

Jesus

Individuals:
Larry (my best friend in college)

Craig Parrott (my 8th grade English and Religion teacher)

Larry Crabb
William Shatner

Fictional People:
Jean-Luc Picard
Sam Beckett
Kwai Chang Caine
Mr. Miyagi
Matilda Wormwood

In General:
People who are proactive, passionate about life, energetic, who know what they want and who make it happen.

People who don't make excuses - they just do what needs to be done

People who are honest and tell it like it is

People who are genuine and sincere

People who think for themselves

People who are kind, loving, caring, and generous

People who live for the bigger picture than themselves.

My Blog

Awkward Dreams of Fathers and Sons

Relationships with parents can be difficult things for some of us. I've felt the exact kind of awkwardness with my dad as shown in this video. You love him incredibly, you know he does too, yet you fe...
Posted by The Tall Man on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:26:00 PST

Being accepted for who we really are

"I've been a psychotherapist for nearly thirty years, and I really love my work  can't imagine not doing it. To this day, nothing gets my attention so completely as people telling me the truth about ...
Posted by The Tall Man on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:50:00 PST

Love

As if you didn't know from my blog entries these days... I've been meditating, a lot on love... especially these last couple weeks. So many times when we seek to be genuinely loving, so much crap gets...
Posted by The Tall Man on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:51:00 PST

Real Love - The Truth About Finding Unconditional Love & Fulfilling Relationships

"When our younger son Ken was eight years old, he loved to jump in puddles left by heavy Florida afternoon rains. After one particularly generous downpour, I grabbed our raincoats and said, "Let's go!...
Posted by The Tall Man on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:06:00 PST

My thoughts on love and connecting

Connection, when two people are together and they connect, what flows between them? Love? Not always. Good feelings? Intense feelings? Other things can flow as well, including negative things, but my ...
Posted by The Tall Man on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:17:00 PST

Love and Connecting Videos (Examples from Hollywood)

I've been thinking about love and connecting these days, things that most people don't seem to understand except in a very superficial way. I don't really have anything to write now, but I found some ...
Posted by The Tall Man on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:30:00 PST

Love Song Lyrics

Got a little nostalgic this evening and found myself searching myspace for Petra. They're a Christian rock band I liked when I was a teenager. The song is based on 1 Corinthians 13 from the Bible, the...
Posted by The Tall Man on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:21:00 PST

Collected Quotes

I've recently begun collecting quotes. These are really awesome! "I guess I could be pretty pissed off about whathappened to me. But it's hard to stay mad whenthere's so much beauty in the world."- Le...
Posted by The Tall Man on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 10:12:00 PST

Roswell

This is the entire pilot episode of the best television show ever made! "Roswell" It is divided into 5 parts, about 10 minutes each.Roswell Season 1 Episode 01 - Pilot (1 of 5) Roswell Season...
Posted by The Tall Man on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:09:00 PST

Humans are a part of nature

Last night I had a dream, and in it, or just after, a realization, about us (humans) and nature. We humans are a part of nature. It's our nature to have what's inside us and to express it. It's our n...
Posted by The Tall Man on Sun, 27 May 2007 11:36:00 PST